Tuesday, August 27, 2013

American Minute with Bill Federer AUG. 26 - 'Women can Vote'

American Minute with Bill Federer

AUG. 26 - 'Women can Vote'

6,000 years of recorded world history reveal the most common form of government is monarchy.

The
most powerful monarch ever was the British King, whose vast empire, at
it peak, controlled 13 million square miles - almost a quarter of the
Earth's land, and nearly half billion people - one-fifth of the world's
population at the time.

The
Revolutionary War separated America from Britain and soon other
countries began rejecting their monarchs and replacing them with elected
representative governments called republics.

America's
Civil War and the 13th Amendment ended slavery, followed by a
Republican Congress pushing through the 14th Amendment - giving rights
to freed slaves, and the 15th Amendment - assuring freed slaves the
right to vote.

The
momentum of the anti-slavery movement was channeled into the women's
suffrage movement to allow women to vote, and the temperance movement to
prohibit alcohol.

The
women's suffrage movement spread in the late 1800's thru many
countries, including Sweden, Finland, Britain, New Zealand, Australia,
and in America.

After World War I, American men voted for women to vote with the passage of the 19th Amendment, AUGUST 26, 1920:

"The
right of citizens of the U.S. to vote shall not be denied or abridged
by the United States or by any State on account of sex."

After
World War II, war-torn and post-colonial countries adopted new
governments which allowed women to vote, joined by other emerging
nations, such as:

The League of Women Voters was addressed on their 50th Anniversary by President Richard Nixon, April 17, 1969:

"A
year before the 19th amendment was adopted the League of Women Voters
was founded, and that organization, in the past 50 years, has played a
major role in this Nation on a nonpartisan basis...

Since about 1947, a tremendously escalating role of women in politics in the United States...

I often say that men do the talking and women do the working in campaigns..."

Nixon continued:

"As we look at the past 50 years we wonder what could happen in the next 50 years...

As
I look around the world and as I find that India has a woman Prime
Minister, Ceylon has a woman Prime Minister, Israel has a woman Prime
Minister..."

Women's suffrage leader Julia Ward Howe, the first woman member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, had written The Battle Hymn of the Republic, stating in the 3rd verse:

"I have read a fiery gospel writ in burnished rows of steel; 'As ye deal with my contemners, so with you my grace shall deal; LET THE HERO, BORN OF WOMAN, crush the serpent with his heel, Since God is marching on."

To the Daughters of the American Revolution, President Calvin Coolidge remarked April 19, 1926:

"Who
has not heard of Molly Pitcher, whose heroic services at the Battle of
Monmouth helped the sorely tried army of George Washington!

We
have been told of the unselfish devotion of the women who gave their
own warm garments to fashion clothing for the suffering Continental
Army during that bitter winter at Valley Forge.

The burdens of the war were not all borne by the men..."

Coolidge continued:

Since
1880 there has been a marked increase in the tendency to remain away
from the polls on the part of those entitled to vote...

Election
day in the olden times was generally considered more or less sacred -
one to be devoted to the discharge of the obligations of citizenship...

If the people fail to vote, a government will be developed which is not their government...

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